we have seen this phenomenon. there are all of these voters now. we look back and have the sense there was some key number of voters who vote for barack obama in 2012 and voted for donald trump in 2016. they understood the white working class. he needed to have that. it wasn t the core of his coalition but he had to have it. you talk about target iing. i may have read this in jon s piece. this is how weird my memory is. i think you wrote it in 2012. you wrote that defining piece about how the obama people decided they were going to define mitt romney among white working class voters early. but then in the fall, do you know where they advertised? big ten football network. that was their genius stroke. they went to the big ten football network and just ran a ton of obama ads. what was so brilliant about what brrm said after the loss this year was, he said, you know,
goodness of america and the goodness america represents to the world, when it is strong. and i mean, he would be a great secretary of state. i have no idea if it will happen. i m certain that his love of country would motivate him to listen to the conversation, to provide feed back and see whether or not it would be a good fit. i think it would be a genius stroke for mr. trump to bring in someone like governor romney, because i think it would send a very strong and powerful message to the world. adam hodge, my guess is when we get to discussing some of the announced picks today, you re not going to be a big fan. how would you feel as a mitt romney as secretary of state? first, i would love to be a fly on the wall in that first meeting in the oval office between the two of them, or a fly on the wall in the conversation this weekend when mitt romney and donald trump go back and forth about all of the terrible things they said about each other just a few short months ago. i think that
balance about that about senator mccain he did not go into the racial suer in his campaign the way the romney folks have. all the push back against the powell endorsement four years ago came from the far right, i debated pat buchanan on hardball. rush limbaugh playing the race card. mccain wouldn t go there. you have a romney co-chair being one of the first people on national television to say that this is all about race. so you have to understand that black people are the real racists now according to the republican party and white people voting for romney god fored by you say any whites are voting for romney because he s white that is just reboatent. i would add like what sununu said was not a genius stroke of dog whistling but the people who are happy to talk about john sununu today are the obama campaign. and worth noting he issued an apology saying colin powell is a friend and respect the